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State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service / Captain
Two stones: One upright flat granite slab, contemporary to burial. One modern veteran's stone engraved "Captain Virginia Line Rev War"
Map coordinates have not been set for this cemetery
Also see memorial ID 73085658
Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:
Author: K. Scott Collins
Thomas Heard b. 1742 d. 1/17/1808 (GREENE COUNTY, GEORGIA)
He served as a Captain in the Virginia State Troops.
Buried: Old Thomas Heard Cemetery - "left 6 miles on Cold Spring Road (south on Woods Road, approximately 3/4 mile on left)" - "three miles west of Greensboro, just to the left of the road leading to the Stock-Willis Place."
See:
(1) Cemeteries of Greene County, Georgia, p. 206.
(2) Georgia Pioneers and Their Times, p. 82.
(3) History of Greene County, p. 395, 397.
Source:
Arnold, Ross & Burnham, Hank. Georgia Revolutionary Soldiers & Sailors, Patriots & Pioneers. Vol.1. Athens, GA: Georgia Society SAR, 2001. A Georgia County-by-County compilation of Revolutionary War Patriots who made Georgia their permanent home and died here, including information on service history, birth dates, death dates and places of burial with an index.
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